Gisèle Lagacé (born June 16, 1970, in

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, Canada) is a Canadian comics writer and artist, writer and illustrator of

webcomic Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on the internet, such as on a website or a mobile app. While many webcomics are published exclusively online, others are also published in magazines, newspapers, or ...

s. She is best known for her series '' Ménage à 3''.

Biography

She was born in 1970 in

, Canada, and presently () lives there. She attended high school at l'ESN in

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, and studied visual arts for a year at

Université de Moncton The Université de Moncton is a Canadian French-language university in New Brunswick. It includes campuses in Edmundston, Moncton, and Shippagan. The university was founded in 1963 following the recommendations of the royal commission on hig ...

before graduating in graphic design from

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in Ottawa. She was a

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for the Quebec

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Barbarella in the early 1990s, then worked as a graphic designer for Avenue Design Group in Ottawa laying out advertisements and designing logos.

Works

In 2000, she wrote and illustrated the webcomic '' Cool Cat Studio'' which quickly became popular in 2001 and won the

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for best art. That led to the 2002 co-winning of the Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent. ''Cool Cat'' went on hiatus at the end of 2001 and returned in 2007 with co-writer T Campbell to conclude in late 2008. From 2004 to 2009, she worked with writer T Campbell to co-create the '' Penny and Aggie'' series about the rivalry of two girls and their friends. Lagacé was nominated in the 2007

for Outstanding Romantic Comic. In 2008, she created with writer David Lumsdon the series strip '' Ménage à 3'' (meaning "threesome"/"love triangle" or "three person household") which tells the story of Gary, a thirtyish Montrealer, and friends. The strip was consistently in the top 50 rated webcomics and ended in 2019. Lagacé was also nominated for the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Webcomics Creator. Lagacé was invited to the 2008 Anime Festival in Montreal. In 2018, ''Ménage à 3'' won the Joe Shuster Award for "Webcomics Creator". In 2009, she created the series '' Eerie Cuties'' which tells the story of high school monsters. David Lumsdon later joined as co-writer. In January 2013, she created a spinoff of ''Ménage à 3'', called '' Sticky Dilly Buns'', which tells the story of Dillon, a gay actor. Lagacé has penciled some

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, including #635, #636, #639, and #646. She illustrated the

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-themed one-shot, '' Archie Meets Ramones'', in 2016. She drew a ''

Betty Boop Betty Boop is a cartoon character designed by Grim Natwick at the request of Max Fleischer. She originally appeared in the '' Talkartoon'' and ''Betty Boop'' film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pic ...

'' mini series for

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in 2016, and issues #24-26 of ''

Jem and the Holograms ''Jem and The Holograms'', also known as simply ''Jem'', is an American animated musical television series that ran from 1985 to 1988. The series is about record company owner Jerrica Benton, her singer alter-ego Jem, and the adventures of her ...

'' from

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. She illustrated the covers of the

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series '' Unbelievable Gwenpool'' for issues #12 and #13 from February to March 2015, and is the artist of ''Exorsisters'', an

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from

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written by Ian Boothby.

References

External links

Lambiek Comiclopedia article.
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